Lost amid this week’s panic is the role the government’s dysfunctional budgeting process contributed to the cacophony and ...

The Congress is planning to stage a protest inside the Parliament ahead of the Union Budget presentation over the recent ...

U.S. federal budgeting has two major categories of spending. The one subject to the most scrutiny is “discretionary” spending, which is the basis of the annual appropriations process. This includes ...

Republican proposals Congress could consider this year would take away or reduce food assistance from tens of millions of ...

The Trump administration grabbed at the 'power of the purse' in Congress, using a little-known executive action that could ...

This technical note explains how we adjust the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) ten-year budget baseline issued in January 2025 to create our CBPP baseline, which we use in our analyses of ...

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is bracing for another two years of struggle with the nation’s Congress, as ...

Congress could save billions by closing federal budget “loopholes” that have cost taxpayers more than $300 billion, a ...

Focusing on the concrete consequences of Donald Trump’s funding freezes, rather than abstract arguments about democracy, ...

Immigrants residing illegally within the U.S. could no longer receive child tax credits or tax breaks for low income earners ...

A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants to hike Medicare fees for doctors by 6.62%, offsetting inflation and cuts made this ...

Rachel Maddow points out how Senate Democrats are using their power in the minority to boycott Trump's OMB pick Russell ...